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I was ( haven't finished as of writing this) the episode of DS9 where Worf decides to get Jadzia into Stovakoor. Quark, Bashir, and O'Brien tag along because the first two loved her and O'Brien isn't going to let his buddy get killed. Part of the ritual involves shedding blood to honor Jadzia. Worf cuts his own hand but Quark is kind of squeamish about pain so before he can really object to the ritual or be a coward a Klingon grabs his wrist and General Martok cuts it for him. No mockery, no guilt trip, just a basically "your too scared to do it so we'll do it for you" and they move on like it's nothing. Which I liked.

This is easily one of my favorite lines from any series. Kang(?) is imaging the story about him, Worf, and Jadzia reclaiming Kahless' original sword and Worf says that a true warrior doesn't need to exaggerate. Kang says something like, "Well, you better I hope I exaggerate the story or else when I get to your part all that can be said is 'and Worf came along.'"

I know I butchered those lines but I was just laughing about it to myself.

I have over the last 2 years really gotten into Star Trek since they put all the series on Netflix and started by watching TNG, loved that so moved onto DS9 and now I'm working my way through Voyager (S5 E17). I would like to get into the novels but don't know where to start. Do I start with the current crew I'm on my adventure with on Voyager or do I start out from the beginning (not a fan of the original series) with TNG stories? Do the books actually even follow the crews of the ships or are they different from the shows? Do the books tie into the timeline? Do they happen between episode missions, do they help to explain things that happen in the shows etc. Any information would be greatly appreciated, I want to try and do this right, not just read random stories that end up making no sense.

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Also, if there is a specific sub-reddit for this type of stuff please let me know so I can post there.

Can someone please explain to me what head canon is. I see it used here but I don't know what it means. Since head canon is obviously not ST canon (otherwise there wouldn't be a need to designate different name) what is the use for it?

i have recently been rewatching tng on netflix. i used to watch it in the mid 90's and there's an episode that i remember that i cant seem to find. i found something similar but it wasn't like i remembered.

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it deals with a sort of invisible people who are studying the ships crew while they are unaware. as i remember it, it was a la forge episode with him not being able to get rest. he would go to sleep and wake up instantly but time had passed. i found an episode like that named "schisms" but it was riker who was in that position, maybe i combined the episodes in my memory? if so what was the other episode?

I've been watching Star Trek: Enterprise for the first time. I know that Enterprise is set before the Prime Directive becomes a thing, but you see that Captain Archer is starting to follow a policy of non-interference. In the season 1 episode, "Dear Doctor," the crew comes across a planet where two sentient races have evolved peacefully side by side. Now, the more evolved of those species is beginning to die off as a result of a genetic disease that is ravaging their population. These people, the Valakian, beg Captain Archer to help them.

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While the doctor is able to successfully come up with a treatment and cure for the disease, he makes the case that the Enterprise should not share this cure with the Valakian. To do so, the doctor argues, would be to interfere with the natural evolution of the planet and of the species. Archer buys it, and they refuse to help the people, essentially dooming millions to death. Archer ends this episode by saying that in the future, they will have to come up with some sort of "prime directive" that should guide their non-interference decisions in the future.

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Ok... fair enough. But flash forward a couple episodes later and Captain Archer is leading a prison escape at an internment camp in the "Detained" episode. He feels like the aliens being kept there are innocent and draws parallels between the US Japanese internment camps from WW2 in order to make a moral argument for helping them get free. Isn't that interference?

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In the episode, "Rogue Planet," he also teaches an alien race of mind-reading, shape-shifters how to avoid detection from hunters that have been killing them as trophies for hundreds of years. He only does it cause the shape-shifters turn in to a beautiful woman that convinces him to come to their aid. Isn't that interference?!

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It seems that in one instance, the crew is totally ok with letting millions of Valakians die, because "to save them would be interference in the natural course of things." But then they have no problem saving individuals and much smaller populations in other situations where it is self-serving.

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IDK, maybe this is just a rant. But I can't get over how they just let those millions of Valakians die!

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Are there examples of this from Next Generation, DS9, and Voyager that I just missed?

Hey All! I'm a very new fan of Star Trek, and after watching the modern reboots I thought I should give old trek a spin; reading wikis, watching some of the more famous older films and television episodes, going deep into the lore of the Federation and its fleet (because my main appeal to Star Trek at all is galactic diplomacy and in-depth ship design and science fiction).

I'm a little confused as to why the Earth Federation went so many decades never making extreme improvements to the Enterprise's ability to withstand damage or deal more damage of it's own against enemy ships.

Now I KNOW that the Enterprise's first and foremost purpose was to explore and act as a representative of the Federation in diplomatic relations. That said, pretty much every time the Enterprise was destroyed or severely damaged it was by Romulans or the Klingon, not asteroid collisions or getting lost in deep space or torn in half by a solar flare or anything like that. It was destroyed by an enemy ship. If that was the #1 deterrent from the Enterprise to continue operating, why not prioritize weapon systems when creating a new model?

Of course, the Federation did engineer extensive weapon systems for the Enterprise D and E, but by then the Enterprise wasn't a Constitution Class exploration vessel, it was just straight up a Sovereign Class battleship.

Was it because the many captains of the Enterprise were reckless and didn't pay much heed to the fact that the Enterprise was ill-suited to ship-vs-ship engagements?

Was it because the federation was diverting it's attentions to upgrading actual warships rather than the weapon systems of ships meant to explore space?

Was it because Klingon and Romulan warships were always ahead in the arms race and destroyed the Enterprise despite any weapons upgrades it underwent?

In "the Wrath of Khan", after the Reliant's first strike on the Enterprise, the damage indicator shows not only gamage tot he port side of the ship, but also the starboard side, neck and saucer, yet there is no visible damage on the exterior.

Could it be possible that the damage could be internal? It could be possible that the explosions from phaser strike on the engineering hull were enough to also pass through into the opposite side while the rest could be the result of structural damage from the shock or from the damage to engineering.

How interesting would it be if there was an alternate version of the TOS Defiant that was in fact a section 31 ship?

In this situation, the ship is fitted with shields, weapons, and technology not typical of a constitution class starship, and has something mny federation ships don't: Armor.

In this scenario, The Defiant was fitted with an experimental Phase cloaking device and was using it to sneak into tholian space on a covert mission. While on the way out of Tholian space, the Phase cloak suffered a catastrophic malfunction, leaving the ship in a state of interphase and producing an environment inside the ship, so hostile, it killed anyone aboard who didn't wear an EVA suit.

The result of experimental technology malfunctioning instead of tholians from another dimension pulling them in.

The events of the episode would play out similarly but here, while investigating the Ship, Kirk and the landing party begin unravelling the existence of section 31 aboard the Defiant. Things, they were not authorized to see.

I was watching The Hunt for Red October the other day. Great film and it still holds up to this day. I had either forgotten or never noticed that Daniel Davis who played Professor Moriarty in TNG was in the film. It was a nice little surprise to see a familiar face like that.

Similarly, I remember seeing the movie Krull as a kid and being somewhat entertained. As a fan of DS9 you'd think I would have recognized or been familiar with Kenneth Marshall who played Eddington on the series but obviously not.

Any interesting roles you've come across where a Trek actor shows up? Possibly something obscure when they were an up and coming actor.